Jean Dubuffet Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
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When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'
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Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
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Man Writes on Sand.
